Suggestions for a child/adolescent therapy textbook updated for DSM-5

So, here is an update on what textbook I decided to use.

Thank you, Hendrika, for the suggestion of Jeremy Shapiro's Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art. In my opinion, it is an exceptionally well-done text and I nearly adopted it. The 1st half describes various approaches to therapy (e.g., Behavior Therapy; Cognitive Therapy; Psychodynamic Therapy; etc.). The 2nd half of the book describes evidence-informed interventions organized by symptoms. In the 2nd half, conceptualization is covered very well from multiple perspectives. The book includes excellent tables summarizing essential treatment components. The text describes in helpful detail the steps of treatment components. It even offers various phrases that therapists can adopt which is really helpful for therapists new to the field. Overall, an exceptionally good text. However, I did not adopt it for 2 main reasons: (a) it is slightly more expensive than the text I adopted [although quite reasonably priced], and (b) I wanted a text organized by diagnosis rather than treatment approach and symptoms [recognizing there are advantages and disadvantages of each format].

Thank you, Stephen, for the suggestion of Philip Kendall's Child and Adolescent Therapy: Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures, Fourth Edition. It is a solid text and I particularly appreciated it's inclusion of numerous snippets of therapy sessions dialogue that help the reader see how to apply the interventions. I was reluctant to adopt something with solely a cognitive/behavioral approach (which tends to be my approach, but I want to expose students to other conceptualizations as well). By design (the book is specifically a book on cognitive-behavioral procedures), the breadth of conceptualization and etiology was less broad than Shapiro's book or the book I adopted.

I also examined Weisz & Kazdin's Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. A very nice text, but took a different approach than I was needing. It provides relatively short chapters (compared to the other texts I considered) that cover just one specific intervention, but, doing so in considerable detail. If someone needed information about how to apply a specific technique, this would be an excellent book since the chapters provide very good detail for how to apply each evidence-based intervention covered. But, I needed a text that exposed students broadly to various conceptualizations. This text would be helpful to students who needed to do a presentation about a specific therapy approach.

I also reviewed Lea Theodore's Handbook of Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents (2017). This too was a very good text. For a professor teaching an interventions course for just School Psychology or School Counseling students, this would be a great option because it covers a lot of school-based interventions. The interventions are evidence-informed, the chapters provide detailed steps for implementing the interventions, and the text is easily comprehended. This was probably my #3 choice, but, since some of my students will be working outside the school system, this text will be my suggestion as a supplemental text for School Psych students taking my class who want details about interventions for a school setting.

The book I adopted was Alan Carr's The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach, Third Edition. The text is amazingly comprehensive at over 1000 pages. It organizes interventions by diagnosis, which is what I needed (again, realizing there are limitations with this approach). It provides conceptualizations in each diagnostic chapter that are broad and helpful to students just learning conceptualization skills. It provides detailed case studies in each chapter that include the referral questions, family history, assessment results, interview information, developmental history, case formulation, and treatment approach/outcome. The strength of the text is really in its exceptional coverage of case conceptualization from multiple perspectives in each chapter which will be very helpful for student's conceptualization skills. It's weaknesses are that it does not "put children first" (e.g., it refers to "ADHD children" instead of "children with ADHD") and that the details of the interventions are perhaps only "sufficient" whereas other texts (see above) were "excellent." It's 24 chapters cover more than most of the other texts which is a plus--my students will not read all the chapters for this class, but the book will be a great resource for them in the future. I suspect I will have students supplement the chapters in this book with chapters from other texts that have more detailed information about how to do the interventions in order to more fully fill in that piece--it could provide a nice way to get my grad students to do a presentation in class that demonstrates the details of one of the interventions (which the students would have to access additional readings to obtain the full details). At any rate, it fit the structure of my class and its breadth of conceptualization was a plus since that fills in some blanks for what to do in therapy. The cost of the paperback edition was less than Shapiro's text too.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions and I hope the above information will benefit others looking for quality texts for a child/adolescent therapies class since all of the above texts are very high quality.

Hendrika Vande Kemp

Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art (Hardcover)

by Jeremy P. Shapiro, 2nd edition, 2013 is updated for DSM 5

Thank you, Hendrika--that does look like a good option to explore. I'm going to miss Kronenberger, though.

Stephen Cheung

I like Shapiro's Child and Adolescent Therapy as well.

You'd also consider Phillip Kendall's Child and Adolescent Therapy: Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures (4th edition) and Virginia Axline's classic, Dibs in Search of Self.

https://www.amazon.com/Child-Adolescent-Therapy-Fourth-Cognitive-Behavioral/dp/1606235613

https://www.amazon.com/Dibs-Search-Self-Renowned-Emotionally/dp/0345339258/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3VREB4CP7K1541YPZVV1

Thank you, Stephen--I think I used one of Kendall's books way back when I was in grad school and appreciated it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for taking the time to share your review of these excellent textbooks, Ronald. Although I don't teach child and adolescent therapy, I'll keep the textbooks you reviewed in mind for the future.

Mitchell J Prinstein

i like this one!

Treatment of Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, Fourth Edition

(Guilford Press) .

https://www.guilford.com/books/Treatment-of-Disorders-in-Childhood-and-Adolescence/Prinstein-Youngstrom-Mash-Barkley/9781462538980/editors

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